Good Website Designers

The majority of small business sites I have seen on the Internet are in wordpress. Pretty amazing at just how many wordpress sites there are on the internet as well as how many experts who have no graphics design background in it. With the added functionalities of a CMS I would definitively go for one as they do look a lot more professional than basic sites.
To get a good graphics designer is another things as most guys will use templates or at least part of templates to design sites.

There is a big company is Cape Town specializing in designing wordpress themes themselves called woothemes. You can perhaps browse there themes or contact them and find out if they can do something unique for you.
 
purpleonlineadmin said:
In the intro image you mean? For aesthetic reasons. Something wrong with flash objects? Besides the small penalty in SEO ofcourse.
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I do quite like flash the only problem though is the end user explaining to them why the website doesn't want to work on IE 6, this is why I am currently using Jquery rather

Time Wise a banner I did in Flash took me about 2 Hours with Jquery its about 25 Minutes :D

As far as the penalty is concerned, you can still do Adwords and other campaigns its just your organic though that will not be up there
 
skimread said:
The majority of small business sites I have seen on the Internet are in wordpress. Pretty amazing at just how many wordpress sites there are on the internet as well as how many experts who have no graphics design background in it. With the added functionalities of a CMS I would definitively go for one as they do look a lot more professional than basic sites.
To get a good graphics designer is another things as most guys will use templates or at least part of templates to design sites.

There is a big company is Cape Town specializing in designing wordpress themes themselves called woothemes. You can perhaps browse there themes or contact them and find out if they can do something unique for you.
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My argument still stands why would a customer use a "developer" if he/she can just buy a template and do it themselves ?
 
Hi,
I need to update my site (wordpress)
Create 2 new 5 page sites.

What's a fair price to pay for this service?
Any recomendations?
 
byron_spy said:
I do quite like flash the only problem though is the end user explaining to them why the website doesn't want to work on IE 6, this is why I am currently using Jquery rather

Time Wise a banner I did in Flash took me about 2 Hours with Jquery its about 25 Minutes :D

As far as the penalty is concerned, you can still do Adwords and other campaigns its just your organic though that will not be up there
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I hear you, but again, if a user is coming to our website using IE6, they deserve not getting the full user experience:D, jquery and IE6 are not the best of buds too anyways, you'd have to do a lot of "code accommodation", hate that browser to death. The flash object we created back in 2009 when we launched, we could have even changed it to CSS3 transitions if need it be (would have taken 15mins max), we just don't find anything wrong with using flash titbits here and there. As long as it doesn't affect user experience or site functionality, I'm a happy chappy.
 
Safrica said:
Hi,
I need to update my site (wordpress)
Create 2 new 5 page sites.

What's a fair price to pay for this service?
Any recomendations?
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Hi Safrica, honestly depends. Most developers charge an arm and a leg, even when using templates or CMS based sites like Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal etc. I'd recommend actually approaching a web developer, ask for a quote with all your needs in place, and take it from there. Thats a very general question, and i'm afraid you going to get back a very general answer, nothing specific towards your actual needs. Also what are you looking at budget wise from your side? I've seen a basic Wordpress starter package from around the R3000-R5000 mark. Again, i recommend you shop around, ask for quotes, specify what exactly your websites will be doing and take it from there. You can PM details on the project and I will also email you a quotation to work with and specifics for your project. All the best!
 
Safrica said:
Hi,
I need to update my site (wordpress)
Create 2 new 5 page sites.

What's a fair price to pay for this service?
Any recomendations?
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Seeing that it is word press you are able to do it yourself otherwise the company/ person who did it for you did not educate you on CMS and how to work with it. This is typical though .....

As far as the new ones are concerned this depends on your specs
 
purpleonlineadmin said:
I hear you, but again, if a user is coming to our website using IE6, they deserve not getting the full user experience:D, jquery and IE6 are not the best of buds too anyways, you'd have to do a lot of "code accommodation", hate that browser to death. The flash object we created back in 2009 when we launched, we could have even changed it to CSS3 transitions if need it be (would have taken 15mins max), we just don't find anything wrong with using flash titbits here and there. As long as it doesn't affect user experience or site functionality, I'm a happy chappy.
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True everything has its ups as long as it works for you then its great :)
 
MadHatter said:
I would not use this as the website design companies home page is a Shared Wordpress Theme : http://www.yootheme.com/demo/wordpress/streamline

May not be important to some people as the portfolio seems to be all unique designs, just my 3cents...
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+1. As a web design & development company you honestly need to pride yourself on your skills. if your website is also a theme or template, I honestly don't know.:S
 
byron_spy said:
So basically you are saying if someone does not develop a site in a CMS then he isn't someone with a real job and a real dead line ?
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Someone developing a CMS from scratch is reinventing the wheel = waste of time.

I know a lot of companies that use joomla and Wordpress as the framework. They then design pretty templates and get them converted to a joomla or Wordpress theme.

There are many corporate firms using joomla. SQL injections do happen, yes, because of outdated 3rd party plugings or components.
 
sorry for being a tit in this thread, apologies byron_spy.

I do still agree with blogbytes in that creating a cms from scratch is reinventing the 'unbroken' wheel..
 
MadHatter said:
I would not use this as the website design companies home page is a Shared Wordpress Theme : http://www.yootheme.com/demo/wordpress/streamline

May not be important to some people as the portfolio seems to be all unique designs, just my 3cents...
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True, I do use a theme for my own website.

80% of my business is custom software development, primarily rich web applications. We love helping companies get their own websites up and so we continue the web development business, even though it is only roughly 20% of the work we do. Hopefully within the next few months we'll have some spare time where we can design our own, but until then, our customers like our website and it is doing the job for us.
 
byron_spy said:
Time Wise a banner I did in Flash took me about 2 Hours with Jquery its about 25 Minutes :D
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Huh? What did you use to do the JQuery banner?

Also, do you sell a home made CMS? Why does the web design section of your site show WP and Drupal in the CMS section?
 
Fudzy said:
Huh? What did you use to do the JQuery banner?

Also, do you sell a home made CMS? Why does the web design section of your site show WP and Drupal in the CMS section?
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For "quick" jquery anything here

http://www.google.co.za/search?sour...=838l2505l0l2590l13l7l0l0l0l0l386l751l3-2l2l0

I have 4 of own custom coded ones and thats about that

The CMS Side I am busy developing a site for it now setting up a demo and creating user functionality

I prefer not to combine this with my current site although I currently have about 7-8 web/ graphics design sites and all of these will be linked together, as well as my personal blog to be up soon byronneary.co.za

Let me know if I should keep you posted on the CMS
 
rward said:
sorry for being a tit in this thread, apologies byron_spy.

I do still agree with blogbytes in that creating a cms from scratch is reinventing the 'unbroken' wheel..
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No probs :D everyone has their right in opinion

It can be reinventing the wheel but I prefer to be different

The past 2 Months 11 Customers asked me the following

"What sets you apart from other developers/ designers"

As they mostly like to compare apples with pears

Side note: I do not think I am better than anyone just trying to be unique


mcryan said:
True, I do use a theme for my own website.

80% of my business is custom software development, primarily rich web applications. We love helping companies get their own websites up and so we continue the web development business, even though it is only roughly 20% of the work we do. Hopefully within the next few months we'll have some spare time where we can design our own, but until then, our customers like our website and it is doing the job for us.
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If this works for you then its all good Word Press and Joomla is any ways theme based though
 
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